Cyanobacterial Carboxysomes: Microcompartments that Facilitate CO 2 Fixation

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2013

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Rae, Benjamin
Long, Benedict
Whitehead, Lynne
Forster, Britta
Badger, Murray
Price, Graeme (Dean)

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S Karger AG

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Carboxysomes are extraordinarily efficient proteinaceous microcompartments that encapsulate the primary CO2-fixing enzyme (ribulose-1,5- bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase, RuBisCO) in cyanobacteria and some proteobacteria. These microbodies form part of

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Keywords: carbon dioxide; carboxysome; protein; ribulosebisphosphate carboxylase; unclassified drug; article; carbon dioxide fixation; cell compartmentalization; cell encapsulation; cyanobacterium; enzyme kinetics; estuarine species; nonhuman; phylogeny; protein fu Carbon dioxide fixation; Carboxysome; Microcompartment; Photosynthesis; Ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase

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http://hdl.handle.net/1885/54832

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ANU Research Publications

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Journal of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology

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Journal article

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10.1159/000351342

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2037-12-31

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